States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths

[TheSanityAnnex]

Why do you avoid posting articles about gang violence which is the leading cause of gun deaths?

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Man Discharges Gun at Waldorf Wedding Reception, Injuring 5

An unidentified man attending a wedding reception at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan on Saturday accidentally discharged a firearm and injured five people, including one woman who was struck in the head, the police said.

Four people were rushed to hospitals, but their injuries were not severe, the police said.

a wedding guest accidentally discharged a firearm in the lobby area of the Waldorf Astoria at around 7:30 p.m. Officials said a bullet ricocheted off the floor and struck one person. Three others were struck by debris such as glass, marble and tile.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/nyregion/waldorf-shooting.html

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Rise in accidental gunshots by L.A. County deputies follows new firearm

One sheriff's deputy shot himself in the leg while pulling out his gun to confront a suspect.

Another accidentally fired a bullet in a restroom stall. A third deputy stumbled over a stroller in a closet as he was searching for a suspect, squeezing off a round that went through a wall and lodged in a piece of furniture in the next room.

Accidental gunshots by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have more than doubled in two years, endangering bystanders and occasionally injuring deputies. The jump coincides with the department's move to a new handgun that lacks a safety lever and requires less pressure to pull the trigger.



Sheriff's officials say that the increase in accidental discharges — from 12 in 2012 to 30 last year — occurred because deputies were adjusting to the new gun. They expect the numbers to fall in the years ahead. So far this year, the department has recorded seven accidental discharges, five of which involved the new weapon.

But the problems may not be over, as more deputies switch to the Smith & Wesson M&P9. In response, department officials have imposed extra training requirements.

http://www.latimes.com/local/califor...ry.html#page=1

Gun crazy America, 1000s innocents lives wasted.

Some assholes intent on massacres gonna walk in to cinema, mall, etc open carry everybody everywhere all that, not challengeable by police, and start firing. eg, asshole in Georgia walking around the airport with a semi-automatic, high capacity clip?, and daring the police to challenge him.

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Iowa open-carry nut gunned down mall worker who filed sexual harassment complaints against him

An Iowa mall cop — with a Facebook account loaded with open-carry and right-wing memes and photos of multiple weapons — is under arrest for shooting and killing a fellow mall worker because she filed sexual harassment complaints against him.

According to The Gazette, Alex Kozak was taken into custody after shooting 20-year-old Andrea Farrington three times in the back while she was at work at the Iowa Children’s Museum in the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville, Iowa.

Police say that the 22-year-old Kozak left the mall and went to his home and retrieved a 9mm Glock handgun before retuning and shooting Farrington late Friday night..
KCJJ reports that a cousin of Farrington’s said that Kozak had been harassing the victim for at least six weeks and that she had complained to his superiors about unwanted advances he had made toward her. A later report stated that Kozak was fired from his job before the shooting took place.

“They both worked at the Coral Ridge Mall and knew each other through the Coral Ridge Mall,” Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness said. Kozak had worked at the mall since 2014.
After shooting Farrington, Kozak fled the mall in his car but was later pulled over without incident.

Kozak — who is currently being held on $10 million bail — is married to Kellie Kozak, who recently posted pictures on her Facebook page of a visit to Costco where her husband can be seen carrying a sidearm. According to his father-in-law, Kozak didn’t always carry a weapon, saying, “If cir stances were that it’d be best not to have a weapon present, he didn’t have a problem with that.”

A selection of postings from Kozak’s Facebook page — many pulled from Right Wing News — below :

[Th'Pusher]

I OWN Guns. But I hate the NRA

[TheSanityAnnex]

I OWN Guns. But I hate the NRA

my long guns are not evil

[Th'Pusher]

my long guns are not evil

Every. Single. Time.

[TheSanityAnnex]

I OWN Guns. But I hate the NRA

I should trademark that line.

I actually quoted you and was going to say I felt the same way and never knew you owned guns. After quoting you I saw it was a link to a whiny hunter who doesn't like the NRA and didn't have the balls to say who the majority of people using handguns to murder were.

[admiralsnackbar]

I should trademark that line. I actually quoted you and was going to say I felt the same way and never knew you owned guns. After quoting you I saw it was a link to a whiny hunter who doesn't like the NRA and didn't have the balls to say who the majority of people using handguns to murder were.

Guess your lack of balls prevented anyone from knowing what you're talking about specifically, but... https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/uc...ender_2013.xls

[LnGrrrR]

Iowa open-carry nut gunned down mall worker who filed sexual harassment complaints against him

An Iowa mall cop — with a Facebook account loaded with open-carry and right-wing memes and photos of multiple weapons — is under arrest for shooting and killing a fellow mall worker because she filed sexual harassment complaints against him.

According to The Gazette, Alex Kozak was taken into custody after shooting 20-year-old Andrea Farrington three times in the back while she was at work at the Iowa Children’s Museum in the Coral Ridge Mall in Coralville, Iowa.

Police say that the 22-year-old Kozak left the mall and went to his home and retrieved a 9mm Glock handgun before retuning and shooting Farrington late Friday night..
KCJJ reports that a cousin of Farrington’s said that Kozak had been harassing the victim for at least six weeks and that she had complained to his superiors about unwanted advances he had made toward her. A later report stated that Kozak was fired from his job before the shooting took place.

“They both worked at the Coral Ridge Mall and knew each other through the Coral Ridge Mall,” Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness said. Kozak had worked at the mall since 2014.
After shooting Farrington, Kozak fled the mall in his car but was later pulled over without incident.

Kozak — who is currently being held on $10 million bail — is married to Kellie Kozak, who recently posted pictures on her Facebook page of a visit to Costco where her husband can be seen carrying a sidearm. According to his father-in-law, Kozak didn’t always carry a weapon, saying, “If cir stances were that it’d be best not to have a weapon present, he didn’t have a problem with that.”

A selection of postings from Kozak’s Facebook page — many pulled from Right Wing News — below :

FREEDOM! GOD BLESS AMERICA! IF SHE DIDN'T WANT TO BE KILLED, SHE SHOULD'VE BEEN OPEN CARRYING HERSELF! THEN HE WOULD'VE THOUGHT TWICE! FREEDOM ISN'T FREE! USA! USA! USA!

[LnGrrrR]

Democrats vision of Utopia is probably Brave New World. Republicans vision of utopia is... Mad Max? Escape from NY?

[admiralsnackbar]

Democrats vision of Utopia is probably Brave New World. Republicans vision of utopia is... Mad Max? Escape from NY?

Mexico

[LnGrrrR]

Mexico

LMAO

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Guns Don't Deter Crime, Study Finds

A new study, however, throws cold water on the idea that a well-armed populace deters criminals or prevents murders. Instead, higher ownership of guns in a state is linked to more firearm robberies, more firearm assaults and more homicide in general. [5 Milestones in Gun Control History]

"We found no support for the hypothesis that owning more guns leads to a drop or a reduction in violent crime," said study researcher Michael Monuteaux, an epidemiologist and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "Instead, we found the opposite."

More guns, more gun crime

Numerous studies have found that gun ownership correlates with gun homicide, and homicide by gun is the most common type of homicide in the United States. In 2013, for example, there were 16,121 total homicides in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and 11,208 of those were carried out with a firearm. (Gun suicides outpace gun homicides by far; in 2013, the CDC recorded 21,175 suicides by firearm, about half of all suicides that year. Contrary to popular belief, suicide is typically an impulsive act, psychiatrists say. Ninety percent of people who attempt suicide once will not go on to complete a suicide later, but a suicide attempt using a gun is far more lethal than other methods.)

Monuteaux and his colleagues wanted to test whether increased gun ownership had any effect on gun homicides, overall homicides and violent gun crimes. They chose firearm robbery and assault, because those crimes are likely to be reported and recorded in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Report.

Along with that FBI data, the researchers gathered gun ownership rates from surveys in the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an ongoing, nationally representative survey in which participants answered questions about gun ownership in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Using those years and controlling for a slate of demographic factors, from median household income, population density, to age, race and more, the researchers compared crime rates and gun ownership levels state by state.

They found no evidence that states with more households with guns led to timid criminals.

In fact, firearm assaults were 6.8 times more common in states with the most guns versus states with the least.

Firearm robbery increased with every increase in gun ownership except in the very highest quintile of gun-owning states (the difference in that cluster was not statistically significant).

Firearm homicide was 2.8 times more common in states with the most guns versus states with the least. [Private Gun Ownership in the US (Infographic)]

http://www.livescience.com/51446-gun...adline+Feed%29

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Conservative Media Link Chicago's Crime Wave To Strong Gun Laws, Ignoring Higher Murder Rates In "Gun-Friendly" Cities



http://mediamatters.org/research/201...wave-to/204285

[m>s]

Hey Boutox I have a question for you here

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...11#post8101811

[TheSanityAnnex]

Hey Boutox I also have an unanswered question for you here

Last I checked the majority of gun homicides occur in the inner-cities. Rednecks/repugs don't seem to live there so what demographic are you referring to when you say murdering less gun fellators?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Conservative Media Link Chicago's Crime Wave To Strong Gun Laws, Ignoring Higher Murder Rates In "Gun-Friendly" Cities




http://mediamatters.org/research/201...wave-to/204285

That would be a really fascinating chart if they would have also listed these cities race demographics huh boutons?

[Th'Pusher]

That would be a really fascinating chart if they would have also listed these cities race demographics huh boutons?

Or the socioeconomic status of the offenders.

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Pregnant woman shot in the face in Fresno County road rage attack

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pregnant-woman-shot-20150803-story.html

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Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe



In what would, in a sane nation, be a national outrage, a responsible lover of the Second Amendment murdered his two little boys, aged three and four, before turning the gun on himself and not quite managing to commit suicide.

In a sane nation, there might also be something shocking about this being the second time since December that a vocal open-carry advocate has shot family members to death.

But we live in America, so it’s just one more story that we’ll read, shake our heads at, and perhaps wonder if it’s ever going to be time to talk about guns.

...

So it sure sounds like Shawn Fuller was just a typical American gun-humper, albeit perhaps a more frequently liquored-up version of the standard model. His sudden drunken murder of his children shouldn’t be blamed on guns, of course — he could have killed them any number of ways, as our deleted commenters are sure to remind us.

And most gun owners aren’t angry drunks, or at least we hope they aren’t. But Shawn Fuller had a gun handy when he was drunk and angry, and it sure is remarkable how often that combination ends up with somebody dead and a mother sobbing.

Still, the super-patriot open-carry gun-humpers are right about one thing: The Second Amendment ensured that Josiah Fuller and Uriah Fuller won’t ever have to live under a tyrannical, out-of control government that crushes their liberty.

http://wonkette.com/592820/open-carr...amendment-safe

[SpursforSix]

Open Carry Dude Assaults Wife, Kills Two Sons, Keeps Second Amendment Safe



In what would, in a sane nation, be a national outrage, a responsible lover of the Second Amendment murdered his two little boys, aged three and four, before turning the gun on himself and not quite managing to commit suicide.

In a sane nation, there might also be something shocking about this being the second time since December that a vocal open-carry advocate has shot family members to death.

But we live in America, so it’s just one more story that we’ll read, shake our heads at, and perhaps wonder if it’s ever going to be time to talk about guns.

...

So it sure sounds like Shawn Fuller was just a typical American gun-humper, albeit perhaps a more frequently liquored-up version of the standard model. His sudden drunken murder of his children shouldn’t be blamed on guns, of course — he could have killed them any number of ways, as our deleted commenters are sure to remind us.

And most gun owners aren’t angry drunks, or at least we hope they aren’t. But Shawn Fuller had a gun handy when he was drunk and angry, and it sure is remarkable how often that combination ends up with somebody dead and a mother sobbing.

Still, the super-patriot open-carry gun-humpers are right about one thing: The Second Amendment ensured that Josiah Fuller and Uriah Fuller won’t ever have to live under a tyrannical, out-of control government that crushes their liberty.

http://wonkette.com/592820/open-carr...amendment-safe

So would you ban cars as well? Lots of people get drunk and kill people while driving. Way more than drunk shootings.

[Th'Pusher]

So would you ban cars as well? Lots of people get drunk and kill people while driving. Way more than drunk shootings.

Hey man, you got any straw? I'm looking for the good stuff, not that Mexican dirt straw.

[SpursforSix]

Hey man, you got any straw? I'm looking for the good stuff, not that Mexican dirt straw.

Ask Boutons. He always has plenty.

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So would you ban cars as well? Lots of people get drunk and kill people while driving. Way more than drunk shootings.

are you ing re ed? How many people ride their gun to work?